Multimodal safety management and human factors: Crossing the borders of medical, aviation, road and rail industries

摘要

The rather grandiose title of this collection belies a bias towards civil aviation - the primary substantive topic of half its 28 chapters. Of the rest, six are devoted to healthcare, four to rail, three to road and one is allied to none of these sectors. The rationale claimed for this coverage is that as a safety-critical industry, aviation has led the development of safety systems and human factors, with the other sectors currently progressing well in these endeavours. While the book aims to emphasise the 'practical rather than the theoretical', a number of models and theoretical approaches are described. In fact, some models are described more than once, resulting in a degree of redundancy, which while it might be admirable in a safety critical system is much less so in a supposedly practical text.